Dr. Patricia Crown received the prestigious AV Kidder Award from the American Anthropological Association. Established in 1950, the Alfred Vincent Kidder Award for Eminence in the Field of American Archaeology was initially given every three years to an outstanding archaeologist specializing in the archaeology of the Americas. The award has been given alternately to specialists in Mesoamerican archaeology and the archaeology of the Southwestern region — areas that were both central to the pioneering and exemplary work of A. V. Kidder.

Professor Keith Prufer contributed to a large international collaboration linking Early Holocene human DNA in Belize to earliest populations in North and South America. Since 2014 Dr. Prufer has been conducting excavations in remote rocksheters in the Bladen Nature Reserve in Belize seeking clues about the first humans to live in the American tropics. The article Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America was Published Nov. 8th 2018 in the journal Cell.

Doctoral student Holly Brause delves into water politics affecting our state’s most beloved crop. “This project examines the everyday politics of agricultural water use in the context of an uncertain future.”

Les Field, Ph.D., professor and chair in the The University of New Mexico's Department of Anthropology, has been awarded an EAGER (Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research) from the National Science Foundation, to begin a project entitled “Accelerating Anthropogenic Climate Change and Contemporary Agriculture in Southern Greenland.”

Congratulations to Heather Hendrickson (left), Miranda LaZar (middle) and Jamie Stevens (above, with daughter Chloe Stevens), 2018 recipients of the Cheryl L. Wase Memorial Scholarship for the Study of Archaeology from the Society for American Archaeology! The scholarship provides funding for undergraduate education in archaeology.

Angelyn Bass, Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UNM, and her project colleagues, Douglas Porter (School of Engineering, University of Vermont) and Larry Nordby (Archaeologist), have been selected to receive a 2018 Governor’s Heritage Preservation Honor Award for their work on National Park Service archaeological site conservation projects at Montezuma Castle and Casa Grande Ruins National Monuments.

Archaeology graduate students Lindsay Shepard, Lexi O'Donnell and Genevieve Woodhead encounter a "small site" during survey at Chaco Canyon while conducting research with Dr. W.H. Wills, through a National Science Foundation grant.

Meng Zhang receives funding from the Board of Directors of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for his proposal entitled: 東北亞舊石器時代細石葉社會的變遷：史前中國與她的鄰居 (Explaining Variation and Change among Ice Age Microblade-based Societies in Northeastern Asia: Prehistoric China and her Neighbors)

Dr. Frances Hayashida has received a Fulbright Scholars Award for Chile for fall 2018. She will teach in the graduate program of the Dept. of Anthropology at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago and collaborate with Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católica del Norte (San Pedro de Atacama) colleagues in an ongoing study of water management and land use in the high-altitude Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

Dr. Martin Muller has just published a new edited book with Harvard University Press. Chimpanzees and Human Evolution systematically compares us with our closest living relatives, attempting to account for the evolution of both similarities and differences.

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